We ran into an interesting issue with the Merge tool for TFS Source Control and McAfee. None of the buttons were showing when the Merge tool was displayed. To say the least, this made merging difficult. ...

Team Foundation Server has a pretty slick security model for source code.á On my current project, we have run into a situation that requires us to have two development teams running in parallel but deploying ...

So I have something I need to admit in public. Sometimes I do things the hard way. I came across a tool called the Process Template Editor a while back and scoffed. Why would I ever need anything other ...

Microsoft announced its new DBA role for Team System yesterday! This is exciting because it extends the database project that was in 2003 and 2005 and includes features like adding procedure code to TFS ...

I have been installing Team Foundation Server since Beta 2, so I have seen the installation go from very difficult to quite easy. One issue that we came across at my client site was that the default installation ...

I have been doing a few web casts for Team System recently and found out that presenting from a VPC over LiveMeeting is absolutely horrible. I have a 3.4 gig laptop with 2 gigs of RAM, so my machine is ...

Team Build is a very powerful tool, but it does not do scheduled builds out of the box. Fortunately, creating a scheduled build is very easy. With my current project, I have created a Build Type called ...

Here is an interesting issue that I came across recently. My Team Foundation Server had been installed with a email server that it could not get to. I had to change the server name because I could not ...

One of the questions that came out of my TFS talk at the Magenic Technology Summit was: How do you go about customizing one of the existing templates provided for TFS, such as MSF Agile? We may want to ...

The Magenic Technology Summit has come and gone. It was a great event with many good sessions and lots of networking. I spoke on TFS, and it was a good session. It was way too short though! I was tagged ...

Microsoft is releasing new and exciting products and platforms for developers one by one, which are making developers pretty busy to learn, implement and utilize them at their production environment. Here ...

If you're a fan of symbolic links in *nix, you'll probably be excited to know that we've got them in the Windows world too (and they're called NTFS junction points). The reason most people haven't heard ...

I'm sure a few people want to get their Office 2007 documents into WSS 2.0, especially anyone using TFS 2005. I found a great article that steps you through the process of helping WSS understand the document ...

The other day I needed to import a long list of Areas into my client's TFS server. I had the list in Excel, but I did not want to enter them manually. I searched around the web (using Live Search, thank ...

Let's face it, PMP project managers are not going away any time soon. To that end, we have release a version of the Light Weight Scrum process template that works with the Project Server 2007 Connector. ...

I took the plunge. I have had the bits for 2008 for a little while and I finally decided to set it up for my TFS environment. Windows Server 2003 is so last year! My buddy ET blogged a few weeks ago on ...

I have been bugging Eric Lee to release an update to his work item moving tool called Hemi. Not only did he release it, but he created a CodePlex project so that the community can also extend it in the ...

Have you created a useful gadget for Team System? Do you have one in mind? I am looking for the coolest community built tool for VSTS. It can be something for TFS, for Visual Studio, or something that ...

Seminar Overview Yes, I'll admit it. Not long ago I was a 90 pound quality weakling. Other developers would kick sand in my face and flex their low bug counts and rock solid code, but I just couldn't get ...

I recently had a couple ISV's that wanted to leverage Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) together to implement their own internal CodePlex (www.codeplex.com). ...

I needed to get TFS 2008 (both the server alerts and TFS web access) to send emails over a secure SMTP relay. "Easy", I thought. I remembered setting up SMTP username/password during the web access setup, ...

VSTS2008 has, on occasion, lost it's source control settings - specifically, the bindings to TFS server for a given solution and it's projects. This seems to be because the solution and project files are ...

Today I was trying to find out who has what checked out from a certain folder in TFS - call it $/Project/Folder. I happened to not have most of that folder downloaded yet - i.e. not in my workspace. I ...

The Magenic Technology Summit in Chicago on Friday, June 20 is just around the corner! This is a FREE event with many amazing speakers such as Jay Schmelzer, Group Program Manager on the Visual Studio ...

I recently discovered that after you install the 2008 Team Explorer (here) - and you already had the 2005 Team Explorer installed - you may not able to view or edit TFS work items in Excel. Instead, you ...

I just got back from attending my first Dallas VSTS User Group Meeting. Vince Blasberg gave a presentation titled "Reporting in Visual Studio Team System." He gave a great deep dive into the database architecture ...

I could not pass on this blog post and tell you about that. Go watch this and appreciate it for what it is; A great geek gadget... I WANT ONE Brian the Build Bunny You can get that bad boy here. Rock on ...

In Team System when you are working in Solution Explorer and you create new or add existing files, the file is created on your local workspace and is added to Source Control when you check your changeset ...

In VSS you had to add the file to the VSS project explicitly. I can't count the times that the solution in VSS did not compile because someone had added new file to their solution, referenced it from existing ...

Just to clarify the different tools that you can use to update/recreate the Team Foundation Server warehouse (relational database and OLAP cube). Warehouse Web Service You can browse and invoke it here ...

One of my main tasks now that I'm back at work is to migrate our TFS from 2005 to 2008. Our main concern is with process templates. We went to quite a lot of trouble to create our own process template ...

If you have a large code base, you can optimize your build time for Integration Builds by building only the class libraries that have changed since the last build. This is done by editing the build project ...

The Magenic Technology Council (MTC) is proud to present the first annual Technology Summit in Chicago on June 20, 2008. This two-track, 1 day summit is packed with great sessions and TWO keynotes from ...

*Moved to: TFS Event Handler UpdateThe TFS Event Handler project on CodePlex has been updated today to take care of a number of bugs that were introduced in the last update. These have all been fixed and ...

There is a known problem with MSBuild whereby it does not cater for database project types as these project types (database projects) are not buildable. This is only an issue when specifying a solution ...

Join my colleagues of the Magenic Technology Council (MTC) at the first annual Technology Summit in Chicago on June 20, 2008. This geeky, two-track, day-long mini-conference is packed with great sessions ...

I spent some time playing with the security and Work Item Templates in TFS in an attempt to figure out how the "Assign To:" property works. The Work Item Template allows you to edit the Suggested Values ...

After setting up my project in TFS, I wanted to configure the system so that my work items in my project would show only specific users as "Assigned To" choices. The default is to include all users in ...

After an oops with creating a team project in TFS 2008 with an incorrect name, I wanted to cleanup by removing the team project with the incorrect name. However, someone else created the project and every ...

After creating your team project you need to set up the roles and users for your team members. There are three main places that you need to do this: The Visual Studio project, the project portal, and the ...

I took Jeff McWherter's suggestion to play around with SubText, and have successfully gotten SubText upgraded and running in VS 2008, .NET 3.5. My environment is the "Visual Studio® Team System 2008 Team ...

Coming Friday, June 20th in Downers Grove, IL The Magenic Technology Summit is a full day of Magenic-provided training. We have lined up an impressive array of speakers and topics in two tracks, .NET development ...

*Moved to: Vote for your featureI am currently taking votes for which features will make it into the next version of the TFS Sticky Buddy (v1.1 CTP 1), which will move towards v2.0. The current list of ...

Brian just announce the features list that will be available in the SP1 version of TFS 2008. Wow that's an impressive list of features... Check them out here Cheers, ET Technorati Tags: TFS 2008 SP1 ...

*Moved to: TFS Sticky Buddy v1.0This is the first full release of the TFS Sticky Buddy application written in VB.NET 9 and WPF with Visual Studio 2008 Team Suit. Read more...Follow my new blog on http://blog.hinshelwood.com ...

*Moved to: End of another Sticky week...As you have probably noticed I have been soldiering on with the TFS Sticky Buddy project, and I though I would share. Read more...Follow my new blog on http://blog.hinshelwood.com ...